VOA标准英语2010年-Sarkozy Promises $400 Million More in
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2010年(二月)
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy greets an unidentified Red Cross nurse with Haitian earthquake survivors 1 during a visit of the makeshift tents on The Champ de Mars in Port au Prince, 17 Feb 2010
The aid promised by French President Nicolas Sarkozy comes in addition to France's decision to cancel the $77 million debt Haiti owes to France. The $400 million in French aid will include reconstruction 2 and emergency assistance along with money to help the Haitian government's budget. France will also dispatch experts to help the Haitian government in its recovery efforts over the coming months.
In a speech in the Haitian capital Porte-au-Prince, President Sarkozy said France would support the impoverished 3 country, still reeling from January's earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people and left a million homeless.
Mr. Sarkozy said he had come to tell Haiti's people and their leaders that France will remain at their side to help them back on their feet and open a happier page in history. He recalled France's colonial history with Haiti and the scars it left.
The French president also held talks with his counterpart Rene Preval, who hosted Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper earlier this week.
A donors 4 conference for Haiti takes place in New York in March. Experts estimate the cost of rebuilding the nation could reach $14 billion.
- The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
- survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
- The country faces a huge task of national reconstruction following the war.战后，该国面临着重建家园的艰巨任务。
- In the period of reconstruction,technique decides everything.在重建时期，技术决定一切。
- the impoverished areas of the city 这个城市的贫民区
- They were impoverished by a prolonged spell of unemployment. 他们因长期失业而一贫如洗。 来自《简明英汉词典》